I’ve already gone over Swain’s idea of a character’s dominant impression , now let’s talk about their dominant attitude. A character’s attit...

  "A tag is a label, but a limited, specialized label. It identifies a character and helps your readers distinguish one story person fr...

It doesn’t matter how well a story is structured, or how clever the writing is, if it isn’t clear to readers what the text is meant to...

Good Writing Patterns: Creating Emotion Hello! Welcome. Yesterday I talked about the importance of getting cause and effect right fo...

Yesterday we saw that character traits don’t come singly but in pairs. If a character is, say, one angry SOB then, all things being e...